Integrating maDMP with the data management process

The data management process for a research project covers the collection, storage, transformation, analysis and archiving or deletion of the data. Each of these stages can involve some complex and detailed steps. Projects in the same discipline may have very similar, or even the same, series of steps in a given stage. For example, more than one project may make use of the same multi-purpose detector. For each project the transformation from the raw data into more physical quantities (such as pulse signals from a detector into three-dimensional coordinates) could be common. If one project were able to define such a workflow and include it as part of their DMP, other projects would be able to reuse it. Capturing these workflows in the DMP would more accurately reflect the data management process and provide some value to follow-up, or related projects that have similar workflows and which would be able to reuse these workflows.

The task we set ourselves for the hackathon was to take some specific workflows from a portion of the data management process for the Climate community in the EOSC-Nordic project and see how we could capture the workflow within the maDMP schema.